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    CNN Anderson Cooper 360: Debate Body Language Speaks Volumes

    Amy Cuddy points to past debates for examples of non-verbal cues that can change how a candidate's message is received.

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    • 10 Jul 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

    Summing Up Summarizing this month's rich stew of comments regarding leadership is a hazardous task. The subject is far too complex for four paragraphs. So please bear with me. The strongest messages I received were that if leadership... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 29 Oct 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying

    that public health officials should target their pandemic messaging to men differently than to women, to encourage safer behaviors and reduce the spread of the disease globally. Research shows that men are dying from COVID in much higher... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
    • 26 Jun 2015
    • News

    Get Rid of Unhealthy Competition on Your Team

    • March 2016
    • Case

    Evive Health and Workplace Influenza Vaccinations

    By: John Beshears
    Evive Health is a company that manages communication campaigns on behalf of health insurance plans and large employers. Using big data techniques and insights from behavioral economics, Evive deploys targeted and effective messages that improve individuals' health... View Details
    Keywords: Vaccination; Influenza; Flu Shot; Preventive Care; Health Care; Behavioral Economics; Choice Architecture; Nudge; Experimental Design; Randomized Controlled Trial; RCT; Causal Inference; Consumer Behavior; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Communication Strategy; Health Industry
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    • 20 Nov 2019
    • Video

    Giving Thanks

    • 27 Nov 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie

    llSource: iStock Think that probably inappropriate Snapchat selfie is safe from leaking into your professional life because it disappears? Think again. Features on some communication apps like Snapchat and Instagram Stories allow you to share your images and View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 19 Oct 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

    (Photo source: Catherine Lane) Giving to charity is the ultimate act of selflessness. We offer our own hard-earned money to those in need, with no thought of return. The reality of altruism, however, is much more complicated, as Harvard Business School Assistant... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • September 2007
    • Article

    (Noisy) Communication

    By: Bharat Anand and Ron Shachar
    Communication is central to many settings in marketing and economics. A focal attribute of communication is miscommunication. We model this key characteristic as a noise in the messages communicated, so that the sender of a message is uncertain about its perception by... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Marketing Communications; Performance Improvement; Mathematical Methods
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    • March 2016 (Revised March 2022)
    • Teaching Note

    Evive Health and Workplace Influenza Vaccinations

    By: John Beshears
    Evive Health is a company that manages communication campaigns on behalf of health insurance plans and large employers. Using big data techniques and insights from behavioral economics, Evive deploys targeted and effective messages that improve individuals' health... View Details
    Keywords: Vaccination; Influenza; Flu Shot; Preventive Care; Health Care; Behavioral Economics; Choice Architecture; Nudge; Experimental Design; Randomized Controlled Trial; RCT; Causal Inference; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Health; Consumer Behavior; Health Testing and Trials; Communication Strategy; Insurance Industry; Health Industry
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    • 11 Mar 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Curbing Adult Student Attrition: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Keywords: by Raj Chande, Michael Luca, Michael Sanders, Xian-Zhi Soon, Oana Borcan, Netta Barak-Corren, Elizabeth Linos, Elspeth Kirkman & Sean Robinson; Education
    • 20 Nov 2020
    • Video

    Giving Thanks

    • November 2008 (Revised August 2010)
    • Case

    Whole Foods Acquires Wild Oats (A)

    Examines the implications of Whole Foods' CEO's anonymous message board postings including its potential impact on the company's proposed merger with Wild Oats. View Details
    Keywords: Forms of Communication; Acquisition; Communication Strategy; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 03 Oct 2012
    • News

    Tonight's Presidential Debate Will Be Decided by Body Language

    • 07 Nov 2021
    • News

    Kominers’s Conundrums: Looping Letters in a Narrative Arc

    • 26 May 2023
    • Blog Post

    Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

    Sciences (SEAS) and Harvard Business School, will soon head to SpaceX, where she’ll work in the direct-to-cell connectivity department. Along with enabling normal cell phone features such as text messaging and phone calls, that technology... View Details
    • 08 Jan 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

    What are the implications of your book's message beyond Japan? Many other countries emulated Japan, both in government and in business. Some countries modeled their whole national economic strategies on Japan's, while others picked and... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
    • September 2023
    • Article

    Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy: Experimental Evidence from Nine Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    By: Vincenzo Galasso, Vincent Pons, Paola Profeta, Martin McKee, David Stuckler, Michael Becher, Sylvain Brouard and Martial Foucault
    We study the impact of public health messages on intentions to vaccinate and vaccination uptakes, especially among hesitant groups. We performed an experiment comparing the effects of egoistic and altruistic messages on COVID-19 vaccine intentions and behaviour. We... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccination; Vaccine Hesitancy; Information Campaigns; Health Pandemics; Behavior; Information
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    • 22 Apr 2014
    • News

    Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn's Sobering Earth Day Celebration

    • 04 Aug 2023
    • Blog Post

    Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture

    “Humanity is on thin ice,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said during a video message in March 2023. “And that ice is melting fast." Guterres was responding to the AR6 Synthesis Report from the United Nations Intergovernmental... View Details